Balancestaffs.com/windingstems.com down?

[nickelsilver]

I've long used balancestaffs.com as a reference when making staffs, and have bought from them as well. As of 3-4 days the site is totally down, anyone know anything? It was a great resource and easy to use site- and easy to order (and good pricing!). I hope it's not gone forever- yet another supplier! I actually ordered a staff maybe 2 weeks ago (got it in just a few days), no issue whatsoever.

 

balancestaffs.com

Edited September 13, 2023 by nickelsilver

[RichardHarris123]

I tried using the site to help a fellow member but all I got is the site has been suspended.  

[VWatchie]

[Neverenoughwatches]

10 minutes ago, VWatchie said:

Me too Watchie it was a great resource for sizing staffs and stems. I was on the lookout a couple of months ago for some ronda and dcn catalogs just in case this happened. 

[Nucejoe]

 I might have the owners phone number, will look up list of my contacts, called him last year. 

I don't think he has shut down his business, likely to be back with new stuff. 

 

 

 

 

[JohnR725]

Somebody else made a reference to this a couple weeks ago and yes it's sad the site is down because it made for a wonderful reference. Fortunately there are other reference materials out there but just not as handy as this one.

[JohnR725]

I keep all my bookmarks in separate folders like watch repair So they're easy to find. Then I don't necessarily delete them just because they're gone. Because who knows maybe they're not permanently gone and it seems to be up and running again at least the homepage I'm a gone beyond that

https://www.balancestaffs.com/about.php

 

 

[VWatchie]

On 10/2/2023 at 10:45 PM, JohnR725 said:

it seems to be up and running again

I still unfortunately get no response but surely worth trying now and then.

[Nucejoe]

Just visited the site, works for me only with VPN on .

Edited October 5, 2023 by Nucejoe

[JohnR725]

5 hours ago, VWatchie said:

I still unfortunately get no response but surely worth trying now and then.

It would be nice to figure out how to clone the site for safekeeping just in case. Then unfortunately you're right it just times out as there's nothing there. But it was there the other day which was weird maybe it will come back again hopefully.

This is one of the biggest problems with the Internet the convenience of stuff at the tip your fingers that can disappear instantaneously and never come back ever again.

[thor447]

Not working for me at the moment, with or without VPN on.

[Neverenoughwatches]

55 minutes ago, JohnR725 said:

It would be nice to figure out how to clone the site for safekeeping just in case. Then unfortunately you're right it just times out as there's nothing there. But it was there the other day which was weird maybe it will come back again hopefully.

This is one of the biggest problems with the Internet the convenience of stuff at the tip your fingers that can disappear instantaneously and never come back ever again.

Try windingstems.com that is working for me, you can access both staffs and stems from there .

https://www.windingstems.com/a-michel.php

Edited October 5, 2023 by Neverenoughwatches

[Darthkram]

5 hours ago, JohnR725 said:

It would be nice to figure out how to clone the site for safekeeping just in case. Then unfortunately you're right it just times out as there's nothing there. But it was there the other day which was weird maybe it will come back again hopefully.

I'll try to look at writing a scraper to get all the data this weekend (assuming the sites are up). I did the same with the Ranfft site a few weeks back when it was looking like it was going to disappear soon.

I won't do anything with the data after scraping, just keep it in case these sites ever disappear for good as I share your concern about data on the internet, the amount of amazing resources that have been lost is a shame.

[JohnR725]

Decided to try again stems pops up really fast. The staff one was a little bit slower but it just now came up. Maybe they're just on a really slow connection or a connection that overloads easily?